Sunday, February 7, 2021

Tumblr Thread: Real World Benefits Of The Arts


This fun Tumblr thread spotlights the fact that it actually can pay off to keep that mental warehouse stocked with random bits of knowledge. So learn all the random knowledge that you can! Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread that traces the history of how cats became domesticated.

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Text - mnwood have i ever told y'all about the greatest moment of my academic career i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word "fuck." anyway he would do this thing every so often where we'd have a "quiz" and the first two questions were

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Text - always really easy and the last one was hard - they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you learn about history and what you don't. so one day he's like okay kids time for a quiz and the first question was who killed abraham lincoln. the second question was who killed JFK. third question was who killed william mckinley.

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Text - i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he'd been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question. i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there's a musical called assassins and there's a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffaloooooooo (in buffaloooooooo)

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Text - kamicokrolock The arts are important. I shocked a teacher once because I could recite the preamble to the US Constitution (got bonus points to), She asked why I'd taken it upon myself to memorize it. I had to explain it was in a School House Rock song....

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Text - sparringwoodpecker I shocked church with my 'math skills' when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year - and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent

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Text - housetohalf Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob's sons since they're the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time l've been thankful for Andrew Lloyd Webber. I even got points for getting the birth order correct.

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Text - archivistofnerddom My little brother got extra points in a social studies class once for knowing "O Canada" in its entirely (we're American and grew up in Maryland, for context) because my older sister went to undergrad in Maine and her acapella group learned the Canadian National Anthem could sing it whenever the hockey teams played Canadian teams.

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Text - ignescent When i was in high school, my history teacher asked what historic technology caused the biggest alteration in military tactics. I an- swered stirrups, and explained that the ability to brace against the horse to use a weapon and the better maneuverability vs a chariot created the entire concept of cavalry, which led to modern tactics, etc. The teacher said I was the first student to ever give that answer and that I was basically correct, and then asked where I had found that out

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